The Programming Historian (Aug 2022)

Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2)

  • Daniel van Strien,
  • Kaspar Beelen,
  • Melvin Wevers,
  • Thomas Smits,
  • Katherine McDonough

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0102
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

Abstract

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This is the second of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. This lesson digs deeper into the details of training a deep learning based computer vision model. It covers some challenges one may face due to the training data used and the importance of choosing an appropriate metric for your model. It presents some methods for evaluating the performance of a model.